• Manipulate polynomials

• Expand brackets and collect like terms

• Factorise expressions

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A salesman is paid commission of £10 per week foreach life insurance policy which he has sold.

Each week he sells one new policy so that he is paid£10 commission in the first week, £20 in the second

week, £30 in the third week and so on.

Find his total commission in the first year of 52 weeks.

A sequence a1, a2, a3, . . . is defined by

a1 = 3,

an + 1 = 3an – 5, n 1.

(a) Find the value a2 and the value of a3.

(b) Calculate the value of

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